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mpg123 Player Denial of Service Vulnerability (Linux)

🗓️ 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2009 SecPodType 
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mpg123 Player DoS Vulnerability (Linux). Successful exploitation will let the attacker trigger out of bounds memory access and execute arbitrary code, possibly crashing the application. This host is running mpg123 Player, prone to a denial of service vulnerability

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16 Apr 200900:00
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Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200904-15 (mpg123)
20 Apr 200900:00
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Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:093 (mpg123)
28 Apr 200900:00
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###############################################################################
# OpenVAS Vulnerability Test
# $Id: secpod_mpg123_player_dos_vuln_lin.nasl 5055 2017-01-20 14:08:39Z teissa $
#
# mpg123 Player Denial of Service Vulnerability (Linux).
#
# Authors:
# Nikita MR <[email protected]>
#
# Copyright:
# Copyright (c) 2009 SecPod, http://www.secpod.com
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2
# (or any later version), as published by the Free Software Foundation.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
###############################################################################

tag_impact = "Successful exploitation will let the attacker trigger out of bounds
  memory access and thus execute arbitrary code and possibly crash the
  application.

  Impact level: Application";

tag_affected = "mpg123 Player prior to 1.7.2 on Linux.";
tag_insight = "This flaw is due to integer signedness error in the store_id3_text function
  in the ID3v2 code when processing ID3v2 tags with negative encoding values.";
tag_solution = "Update to version 1.7.2
  http://www.mpg123.de/download.shtml";
tag_summary = "This host is running mpg123 Player which is prone to denial of
  service vulnerability.";

if(description)
{
  script_id(900538);
  script_version("$Revision: 5055 $");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"$Date: 2017-01-20 15:08:39 +0100 (Fri, 20 Jan 2017) $");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2009-04-28 07:58:48 +0200 (Tue, 28 Apr 2009)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"10.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2009-1301");
  script_bugtraq_id(34381);
  script_name("mpg123 Player Denial of Service Vulnerability (Linux)");
  script_xref(name : "URL" , value : "http://secunia.com/advisories/34587");
  script_xref(name : "URL" , value : "http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0936");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2009 SecPod");
  script_family("Denial of Service");
  script_dependencies("secpod_mpg123_detect_lin.nasl");
  script_require_keys("mpg123/Linux/Ver");
  script_tag(name : "affected" , value : tag_affected);
  script_tag(name : "insight" , value : tag_insight);
  script_tag(name : "solution" , value : tag_solution);
  script_tag(name : "summary" , value : tag_summary);
  script_tag(name : "impact" , value : tag_impact);
  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"executable_version");
  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
  exit(0);
}


include("version_func.inc");

mpgVer = get_kb_item("mpg123/Linux/Ver");
if(mpgVer == NULL){
  exit(0);
}

if(version_is_less(version:mpgVer, test_version:"1.7.2")){
  security_message(0);
}

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